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Walking Sticks - Help!!!! They're eating us to ruin!!!
Comments (91)Saschja, I just now saw this comment from you in July......never got a notice in e-mail. So sorry to have not responded. You can e-mail me directly at free2bebrian and the @ and then gmail.com. My name is Jan. We still have walking sticks, but have managed to keep them limited. Takes a lot of plucking. The best remedy I found is watering the plants and watching for them moving out of the wet zone. They don't like water. Then I grab them and either kill them, which I hate doing, or put them in the yard waste bin. The problem with not killing them is the risk that they just get put somewhere else via the yard waste recycling. Mostly I suck up my buddhist impulses and kill them. But its hard. Write to me and we can talk directly. The brown and green are the same, just adjusted to the different color plant part they are on usually. So sorry you have a major infestation. Not a good sign for PG. Jan...See MoreThey're coming BACK !!
Comments (22)Lellie, sapsuckers are only in Florida in the wintertime. You might have your woodpeckers reversed, as it is just now getting to be sapsucker season, while the downies are here year-round. Downies are smaller than sapsuckers and marked differently. You will often hear their high little call, where sapsuckers seem to me to be much quieter. Probably because birds don't usually call a lot in the winter, and that's when they are here. So it makes sense. The goldfinches will not be as colorful during the fall migration as they become during the spring one. They are done mating and will be molting out the yellow and turning grey for winter, as they head farther and farther south. You will see them with varying degrees of yellow splotching as they complete the molt. But just you wait until spring. The last two years, they have stayed in my yard until they were almost completely switched to the bright yellow and black breeding plumage. Then they headed north to nest. I'm attaching a link to a post on woodpecker ID's for you. You might find it helpful in determining which ones you have in your garden, and you can compare the downies with the sapsuckers. (SO glad the archives are back!) Marcia Here is a link that might be useful: Woodpeckers In The Garden...See MoreStink Bugs - They're Back!!!
Comments (9)I would not order wasps to control the stink bugs. If the wasps take over, what would be the next predator you need to introduce to get rid of them? Stink bugs are an annoyance, but they are also harmless. I would love to see the stink bugs go away. They have infested a vehicle that I leave parked outside. I had to take the door panels off to get to some of their hiding spots. No matter how hard I try, I cannot get the stink out. Yes, very annoying, but still not worth it to me to risk introducing a predator that may become an even bigger hazard itself. Wasps can build nests all over your house in places that are very hard to reach, they can sting, and some people are so allergic to them, it could mean their death. Last summer, I got stung by a hornet just above my eye. Within 20 minutes, it swelled up, I started feeling sick, and I missed the next 2 days of work. Please try to find another way other than wasps - you may be putting yourself and others in a lot of risk....See MoreDocumenting a few things before they're gone ...
Comments (11)Thanks to all who looked at the photos, and also to those who commented. MsRed Bryd, I had to check really closely to convince myself that the white and pink blooms were on the same stems. Juneroses, the wooly bee bush/brush (here are more photos) is not commonly found in nurseries even in Texas. It seems it's one of those plants still waiting to be 'discovered'. With its rough rough textured leaves and many grey branches showing it may seem to lack refinement, but I love the slightly shaggy look, plus the blooms are elegant. Incidentally, I have three sweet almond verbenas which have grown into trees. They flush many times a year and are covered with blooms right now filling the yard with fragrance. Bossy, the snapdragon vine is an annual in my garden and has never been rampant. It regularly came back from self sown seeds and its delicately beautiful twining foliage decorated a portion of the chain link fence. Then one year I did some digging in that area and I guess the seed got covered and it didn't return so I got it going again with seeds from Patty. I used to have the pink 'powder puff' and don't remember it freezing back like the red one. Unfortunately, I tried to move it at the wrong time of year and it died. I'll buy it again if I find it....See Morebuford
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